50 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. (C. Huegelianus- 
The portion of the leaf is from the central part; the rachis underneath is 
convex, and armed with numerous, unequal, solitary, scattered, rather strong black 
claws; leaflets not many, inequidistant, remote (15-18 em. apart on each side", in 
the portion seen by me not fascicled, rather large, about 40 em. long, 6 cm. broad, 
elongate-lanceolate, green on both surfaces, with 5 slender non spinulose costae and a 
few secondary nerves; the mid-costa slightly stronger than the side ones; transverse 
veinlets rather distinct, sinuous, Female spadiz apparently large, one partial inflores- 
cence is 30 cm. long, pyramidate in outline with gradually shorter spikelets on each 
side; secondary  spathes elongate-infundibuliform, flat in their lower part on the 
axial side, 15-20 mm. long, truncate at the mouth and prolonged at one side into a 
triangular acuminate point, armed all round below the mouth with some relatively 
strong claws; spikelets arched, spreading or recurved, inserted just at the mouth of 
their respective spathes with a not very distinct axillary callus; the lowest and largest 
spikelet is 7 cm. long, and has 9-10 bifarious flowers on each side; the following are 
gradually shorter and those of the summit have 3-4 flowers only; the axis of the 
spikelets is strongly zig-zag sinuous; spathels asymmetrically infundibuliform, a 
good deal narrowing towards the base, where flat on the axial side, entire and 
truncate at the mouth, prolonged at one side into a triangular acute point, 
glabrescent or slightly furfuraceous, usually furnished below their point with a 
rather robust,  black-tipped spine;  involuerophorum attached outside the mouth 
of its own spathel at the base of the one above, distinctly callous at its axilla, 
cupular, truncate, two-keeled, lunately emarginate and 2-toothed on the side next to 
the axis; involucre slightly raised above the involucrophorum, cupular, truncate, 
2-toothed and slightly lunately excavate on the margin on the side of the neuter 
flower, of which the areola is lunate and sharply defined by a raised acute 
margin, 
101, Caraxvs HurcELIANUS Mart. 
Description.-~I have seen in the Herbarium at Berlin a male spadix of this species: 
in flower without precise locality collected by Metz certainly in Southern India. The 
male spadir is elongate, ultralecompound, with several seorpioid partial inflorescences 
and flagelliferous at its upper end; the partial inflorescences are 25-40 em. long, 
have several also arched scorpioid secondary or spikelet-bearing branchlets each 
of which bears few gradually diminishing spikelets véry reduced in length and 
number of flowers towards the end. ‘lhe spikelets are inserted outside the 
mouth of their respective spathes with a very distinct axillary callus: are 
spreading arched or recurved: the lowest are at times branched again: the inter- 
mediate are 19-20 mm, long and bear few flowers in two collateral assurgent 
series (4-5 flowers in each series); the upper spikelets gradually shorter and with 
fewer flowers; spathels short, suddenly expanded into a subinfundibular-bracteiform 
bluntish limb; involucre conspicuous, orbicular, flat. Male flowers relatively large, 
7 mm. long, narrowly ovoid, very obsoletely trigonous, 3 mm. broad at the base, 
narrowing towards the apex; the calyx tubular, coriaceous, not deeply 3-toothed, 
striately veined; the corolla also coriaceous, twice as lone as the calyx. 
The uppermost flower in every spikelet is borne upon a slender very distinct 
pedicel. 
